1. 1. William James, The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 1 (New York: Cosimo Classics, 2007), 330.
2. 2. Paul Ricoeur, Oneself as Another, translated by Kathleen Blamey (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), 6. By proposing a “narrative theory” of identity, by which a self comes into being and knows itself as a result of one entity’s interaction with other entities, Ricoeur does his best to supply some ground in which to plant a personal identity. Ricoeur’s is one proposal among many. Considered here are only those proposals—Locke’s and Hume’s, with a nod to Kierkegaard’s—that provide the touchstone for the ongoing examination of the problem in Western thought.
3. 3. Joseph Walker, “LDS Church Pleased with Positive Response to ‘I’m a Mormon’ in Great Britain,” Deseret News, June 22, 2013.
4. 4. Part of a court order imposed earlier this year forbade Canadian Winston Blackmore from “interfering” with the LDS Church’s use of the term Mormon. Daphne Bramham, “Mormons win battle to distance themselves from B.C. polygamist,” The Province, January 13, 2015.
5. 5. The corporation that is the LDS Church certainly has the capacity to determine who enjoys its institutional membership status since it can invalidate membership records according to its internally-determined procedures. The matter under examination is not whether a church institution can deny membership to an individual but whether institutional membership and a Mormon-ness of identity are the same thing.